Submission

Submissions to the Rules Challenge 2010 consist of a demo paper of 4-8 pages, describing the demo show case, and a link to more information about the demo/show case, e.g. a project site, an online demonstration, a presentation about the demonstration, or a download site for the demonstration.

Please upload all demo papers submissions as PDF files in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ). To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based on the evaluation criteria indicated below.

Demo Criteria

The demos as well as the descriptions of the application will be evaluated using the following criteria:

clear exposition of the objectives, outcomes, benefits for going beyond the state of the art in the application domain with particular regard to demonstrate correctness of answers; (20%)

demo is encouraged to include modelling and reasoning on temporal or/and geospatial rules in a domain where these parameters are relevant for the outcomes and in any case a good level of expressivity; (20%)

demo have to demonstrate the results with a concrete sample balancing conciseness and completeness; (20%)

demo should demonstrate a good level of effectiveness to manage complex rules including geospatial and temporal dimensions by statistical/finding/ benchmarking evaluations; (20%)

demo should preferably (but not necessarily) be embedded into a web-based or distributed environment and they should pay attention to the end-user interactions in order to provide an adequate interface following the usability parameters in the state of the art for favouring a concrete usage of the application (20%).

Proceedings and Post-proceedings

The peer-reviewed and selected papers will be published in additional special Challenge proceedings (will be published as CEUR proceedings) along with the online publication of your demo in the highly visible growing Rules Challenge pool. A selection of revised papers from the Challenge will be resubmitted to a special issue of a journal.

Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance and technical rigor in the field, benchmarks, evaluations, experience reports and show case/use case demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based technologies or applications in web distributed environments. Papers must be in English.